THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1920. 



"The India Rubber Re- 

 )f the Rotary Club for 



more hours of class work during the last term. Two di- 

 plomas have also been awarded to employes. 



Edward S. Schlcgcl, of Youngstown, formerly with the 

 Ohio Industrial Commission, has been named safety manager 

 of The Miller Rubber Co., Akron. 



Theodore E. Smith, publisher of 

 view," has been elected president 

 the ensuing year. 



Major A. G. Stevens, formerly in the highway transportation 



service of the Council of National Defense, has been made head 



of the highway transport division of the Goodrich Travel and 



Transport Bureau, Akron, Ohio, of which 



Raymond Beck is chief. 



Before entering government service 



Major Stevens was engaged in railroad 



tariff compilation and, therefore, he was 



placed in charge of the section of the 



finance division of the War Department 



which issued railroad freight charges. 



After the war he was assigned to the 



^ ^^^ Council of National Defense to make a 



\ A . :_y^^ ^ comprehensive survey of highway trans- 



■■ . ^^ portation throughout the country. He 



^^ '• • ^^ compiled data showing the comparison 



between railway, waterway, and highway 

 rates, and obtained reports relating to 

 motor express development and operating costs. 



In his present work Major Stevens will correlate all available 

 information on highway transportation, make analyses of engi- 

 neering features of motor trucking, and issue bulletins containing 

 a digest of all matters of interest. 



In order to supply fabric for local rubber mills approxi- 

 mately 500 trucks were hired in the East by Akron rubber 

 factories to bring it over the road from eastern mills. One 

 train, guarded by armed men, brought in 40 cars of fabric. 

 The trucks made the trip at the rate of 100 miles a day and 

 were paid at the rate of $1 a mile. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has announced that the 

 factory will work only five days a week because it is im- 

 possible to make shipments, due to the railroad situation 

 created by the switchmen's strike. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has made an arrange- 

 ment with the federal postal authorities whereby the Govern- 

 ment will move the East Akron post office into a building to 

 be constructed at a cost of $250,000 by the Goodyear com- 

 pany. The building will have 7,000 feet of floor space. 



The Goodyear engineering department will soon move into 

 a new five-story building which is now being completed. 



Fred Fuller, assistant manager of the labor department of 

 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., was given a desk chair 

 by Goodyear "silents" before he started to Los Angeles to 

 work in the Goodyear plant there. The division heads of the 

 labor department presented him with a loving cup at a din- 

 ner tendered him at the City Club recently. 



During the third week of May a "ship by truck" tour was 

 conducted by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. to the smaller 

 cities and towns near Akron. It was part of the national 

 movement to further the "Ship by Truck Movement." 



Although no definite figures are available, safety managers 

 of the various rubber factories here state that accidents were 

 reduced at least SO per cent during the safety campaign con- 

 ducted by Akron industries during the week of May 2-9. All 

 the large factories conducted separate campaigns in their 

 plants. 



The fact that rubber overshoes and rubbers cannot at 

 present be purchased in Akron retail shoe stores, when they 



are located in the rubber goods center of the world, is con- 

 sidered as a huge joke. 



At the annual meeting of stockholders of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Company, Akron, held March IS, 1920, the following six direc- 

 tors were elected for a term of three years : D. M. Goodrich, 

 New York City ; H. Hough, Akron ; C. B. Raymond, Akron ; 

 H. E. Raymond, New York City ; E. C. Shasv, Akron, and 

 F. C. Van Cleef, Akron. 



The by-laws were also amended, changing the time of holding 

 the annual meeting of the stockholders from the second Wed- 

 nesday of March to the third Wednesday of April, beginning in 

 1921. 



At the organization meeting of the directors held immediately 

 after the stockholders' annual meeting on March 15, the follow- 

 ing officers were elected for a term of one year : B. G. Work, 

 president and chairman of board of directors ; H. E. Raymond, 

 vice-chairman of board of directors; vice-presidents — C. B. Ray- 

 mond, W. A. Means, H. K. Raymond, W. O. Rutherford, A. B. 

 Jones and W. C. Geer ; F. C. Van Cleef, secretary ; L. D. Brown, 

 treasurer and assistant secretary; H. Hough, comptroller; H. C. 

 Miller, director, tire sales ; C. E. Cook, director, mechanical 

 sales ; W. C. Arthur, assistant secretary ; V. I. Montenyohl, 

 assistant treasurer, and L. L. Smith, assistant treasurer. 



MISCELLANEOUS OHIO KOTES. 



W. R. McCarty, who recently assumed the duties of sale 

 manager 



maker 



The Standard 



Foot" cord 



several 



Tire Co., Willoughby, Ohio. 

 :ires, has been connected with 

 of the large tire companies. 



For a number of years he served as 

 branch manager for such well-known 

 organizations as the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., The Rubber Products Co. 

 and The Portage Rubber Co. His ac- 

 tivities have always been confined to 

 sales, and he is widely known in the 

 trade as an organizer and executive. 



Sales of the Mason Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Kent, Ohio, amounted to $1,067,000 

 during the first three months of 1920. 

 The Mason fabric mill was scheduled 

 to begin operations on May 15. 

 The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, is making 

 extensive plans for housing the increased number of em- 

 ployes due to the extension of the tire plant and the starting 

 of the cotton fabric mills. One of the plans calls for a group 

 of three units facing a court which will have a fountain, 

 flower beds, trees and shrubbery. There will be twenty-three 

 five-room suites of the duplex type, each being planned to 

 accommodate six or eight girls or a family of four or five. 

 A community hall will give opportunity for social events. 

 The construction is brick, tile and stucco, and the buildings 

 will be heated from a central plant. 



The Barr Rubber Products Co., Lorain, Ohio, has recently 

 completed its new factory for the manufacture of toy balloons, 

 bathing caps, etc., and have it fully equipped for production 

 June 1. Nelt Barr, formerly of Ashland, Ohio, now of Lorain, 

 is president and general manager. The other officers are : John 

 Dorn, vice-president; W. H. Adams, secretary and treasurer. 



The Lima Rubber Co., Lima, Ohio, changed its name on April 

 28, 1920, to the Lima Cord Sole & Heel Co. The officers are J. 

 E. Grosjean, president; F. L. Maire, vice-president; F. E. Har- 

 man, secretary; and Fred Cook, treasurer. The company manu- 

 factures the "Gro-Cord" sole and heel, described elsewhere in 

 this issue. 



B. E. Aaronson, special sales representative of the Mohawk 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, for the last three years, has succeeded 

 M. S. Lines as sales manager of The Gordon Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Canton, Ohio. 



